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Education review due
Education minister Jason Clare spoke to ABC News Breakfast just earlier about the much-anticipated review into Australia's education system, released today.
You talk about entrenched disadvantage in our schools, this report tells us we've got one of the most segregated school systems in the OECD, not by the colour of your skin but the size of your parents' pay packet. Children are more likely to fall behind at school if they're from a poor family and from the bush, but if they're at a school where a lot of people are experiencing disadvantage it's even harder to catch up. There's a number of things we need to do to turn that around.
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